All Chapters of Lusting After the alpha queen : Chapter 41 - Chapter 50

Nyx's POV The word was quiet, but it cut through the room like a knife. Kayden took one step forward. “You can’t be serious.”I finally looked at him. His jaw was set, his eyes blazing. “My judgment has been given.”“Your judgment is wrong!” he said, his voice rising. He pointed at the girl, who shrank back. “This is a plant! A story fed to her! Can’t you see that? Lyra’s had days to get a story straight! This proves nothing except that she’s clever!”A hot spike of anger shot through me. It wasn’t about Lyra anymore. It was about the challenge. In front of my guards, in front of a witness, he was openly defying me. Questioning me.“What would you have me investigate, Head of Security?” I asked, my voice dripping with icy scorn. “Her tears? Her matching story? Should I torture this girl until she says what you want to hear?”“I would have you use your brain, not just your guilt!” he shot back. “Lyra tried to have you killed! This is a staged show, and you’re buying the front-row tick

Kayden’s POVI saw red. Not a little bit. Full, blazing red.I’d come back to tell her about the guard rotations. Then I saw them. Lyra. Close. Too close. Her lips on Nyx’s skin. And Nyx… Nyx was letting her. Leaning into it. Her eyes were closed like she was remembering something sweet.A hot, sick feeling ripped through my gut. Jealousy. It was ugly and it was everywhere.I watched Lyra smile over Nyx’s shoulder. At me. A smile that said I win.No. Hell no.I started walking. Fast. My boots were loud on the stone.Lyra saw me coming. She bowed to Nyx, fake and sweet, and slipped away down the other hall. Like a ghost.“Lyra!” I yelled after her.She didn’t even look back.I changed target. Nyx was still standing there, looking dazed, touching her jaw where Lyra’s mouth had been.I got right in front of her. “What the hell was that?”She blinked, the daze clearing fast, replaced by anger. Good. I’d take her anger over that blank confusion any day. “You do not speak to me like that. I

Kayden's POVThe bond snapped into place like a lock clicking shut.One second I was just a guy who really, really liked this woman. The next… she was inside me. Not like a thought. Like a heartbeat. A second pulse I could feel beating right next to mine.I pulled my fangs from her neck. I licked the wound, tasted her blood on my tongue. It was sweet and sharp and it made my whole body hum. The mark on her skin was deep. Permanent. Mine.She was mine.I collapsed beside her, breathing hard. My heart was racing. Hers was too. I could hear it. I could feel it. Like her heart was in my chest and mine was in hers."Nyx," I breathed.She turned her head on the pillow. Her eyes were hazy, satisfied. But there was something new in them. Something soft. Something I'd never seen before."What?" she whispered."I can… feel you. Inside my head."A small smile curved her lips. "Good. Now you know what it's like."I laughed. It was a breathless, giddy sound. "This is crazy.""You're telling me." S

Nyx's POVFor one second, I let the mask slip.The look on his face. The guards frozen like statues. The silence so thick you could chew it.I couldn't hold it.A laugh burst out of me. Not a giggle. A full, loud laugh that came from my belly and echoed off the training ground walls.The guards blinked. Their jaws dropped. They looked at each other like the sky had just turned green.I laughed harder. I doubled over, one hand on my knee, the other pointing at Kayden's terrified face. "Your face!" I wheezed. "You should see your face!"He stared at me, completely lost. "What?""You thought… you actually thought…" I couldn't finish. The laughter took over again.Slowly, like the sun coming out, the tension in the room melted. One guard snorted. Then another. Then they were all laughing. Not at me. With me. Because for the first time in their lives, they'd seen their Alpha Queen crack a joke.Kayden's mouth opened. Closed. Then he grinned. A slow, relieved, wonderful grin. "You're evil."

Lyra's POVI slammed the door so hard the walls shook.My room. My cage. The place they put me to "rest." I hated it. I hated her. I hated him most of all.Kayden. That smug, turned-wolf bastard. He thought he'd won. Pinning me to the floor like I was nothing. Talking to me like I was a child.I wanted to break something. I grabbed a vase from the table and hurled it at the wall. It shattered. Pretty pieces everywhere. Good.I paced. Back and forth. Back and forth. My mind was a storm.I needed to fix this. Not with a knife. That didn't work. Not with my hands. He was stronger now. No. I needed to be smart. I needed to make her doubt him. Make the doubt grow inside her like a seed until it choked out everything else.She had to start questioning him on her own. Without me saying a word. If I pushed too hard, she'd see it. She was already suspicious of me. I had to be careful. Quiet. Clever.I stopped pacing. An idea formed.Rumors. Little whispers. Things that made people look at him